Protesters dressed in traditional attire taking part in the mass demonstration organised by the opposition alliance led by Unified Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) demanding to draft the new constitution through consensus of all the political parties, in Kathmandu. A new
constitution is widely seen as crucial to ending the instability that has plagued Nepal since the end of a Maoist-led civil war in 2006 and settling the republic. But it has been thwarted by
differences among political parties over how to divide the country into federal states.
